Investigation of Temperature Dependence of Microfiber Coil Resonators

Yu Yin, Jibo Yu, Yuxuan Jiang, Shi Li, Jing Ren, Gerald Farrell, Elfed Lewis, Pengfei Wang

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Abstract

The temperature-sensitive performance of a microfiber coil resonator (MCR) is thoroughly investigated. The MCR is fabricated by wrapping a microfiber on a PMMA rod coated with a UV-curable low refractive index epoxy. The temperature sensitivity is measured by investigating the correlation between the shift of the resonant wavelength and the surrounding temperature. It is determined that a range of parameters of the MCRs, including the gap between two adjacent rings, the diameter of the supporting rod, the number of rings, and the diameter of the microfiber, have a great influence on the temperature sensitivity of the MCRs. By optimizing the fabrication parameters of MCRs, such as the gap of the adjacent microrings and the diameter of supporting rod, etc., the maximum temperature sensitivity obtained is 237.31 pm/°C, which is about 2.3 times higher than that of MCR embedded in EFIRON UV-373 polymer and 23 times higher than that of MCR embedded in Teflon because of the strong thermo-optic and thermal expansion effects of the low refractive index epoxy and the supporting rod used in the experiments. Theoretical (numerical) simulation and experiment results are considered in the assessment of the optical performance improvement of MCR-based optical fiber temperature sensors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8438953
Pages (from-to)4887-4893
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume36
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2018

Keywords

  • Fabrication parameters
  • microfiber coil resonator
  • temperature sensitivity

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